Officers mark on the red carpet where an honour guard should stand before a welcoming ceremony for Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in Beijing, China. (Photo by Feng Li)
A model of a worker painting blue sky and white clouds is installed on the exterior of a building of a power plant in Beijing, China. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press)
Han Ziwen celebrates his purchase of the first Apple iPad sold at the Apple store in Beijing. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)
A 22-year-old woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by Guo Zhongfan, a local community officer, as she attempts to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-storey residential building in Changchun, Jilin province. According to local media, the woman tried to commit suicide after her boyfriend of four years broke up with her, just as they were making plans to get married. The woman did not sustain any injuries during the incident. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)
The performance at a dinner show in Xi'an. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
An attendee looks at art work at a gallery in Beijing. (Photo by Liu Jin/AFP Photo)
Xi'an's Muslim Quarter is home to around 30,000 people of the city's Hui population, and many of its twisting streets are packed with food stalls, restaurants, souvenir and tea shops. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park, built in 1420 A.D. during the Ming Dynasty, is much larger than the Forbidden City, with an area of about 2,700,000 square meters. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
The Bund (an Anglo-Indian term for the embankment of a muddy waterfront) runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai; its buildings once housed numerous banks and trading houses from other nations, and its 52 buildings include architectural styles such as Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Beaux-Arts and Art Deco. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
The skyscraper tower screams for attention over the village's otherwise flat skyline. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Lunch is prepared at a small bed and breakfast, from which a 1-2 hour hike up a mountain allows infrequent visitors to reach the “wild wall” – an unrestored, not easily accessible portion of the The Great Wall about a 2-hour drive from Beijing. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Statues of Buddha abound on the grounds of Xi'an's Big Goose Pagoda. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Nightclubs and bars are booming in Shanghai. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Escaping the sun, and getting some rest, inside Beijing's Forbidden City. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Corn hangs to dry at the bed and breakfast outside Beijing near the “wild wall”. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
The view from Xi'an's city wall. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Doing repair work in and under the streets of Xi'an. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
A Chinese veteran bids farewell to his girl friend after completing his military service before boarding a train back home in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
A model from China's top model agency Silk Road walks the runway at the graduation show of Raffles Lasalle, an international design school in Beijing. (Photo by Stringer)
Hong Kong model Qi Qi poses for pictures with a celebrity during a Omega gala for the brand's new product release in Shanghai, China. (Photo by China Photos)
A Wa ethnic minority group entertainer licks a heated iron during a performance at the Xian Qinling Wildlife Park in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. Xian Qinling Wildlife Park is a tourist attraction combined with animal protection, gardening, zoology science and technology, and recreations. (Photo by China Photos)
A model prepares to display a set of Han nationality clothes during the first National Han Costume Design and Performance Contest in Changchun of Jilin Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
Tourists line up to pose for pictures with a tiger at the Xian Qinling Wildlife Park in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
A young man performs acrobatics at The First China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo in Beijing. China. (Photo by Guang Niu)
Models promote jewelry during a leading watch and jewelry show at the Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing Municipality, China. (Photo by China Photos)
A military delegate (R) arrives at the Great Hall of the People for the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress, or parliament in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu)
Models wear new wedding growns in Chongqing Municipality, China. (Photo by China Photos)
Chinese models promote a domestic car at Auto Exhibit Trade Show of Beijing in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu)
A body-painting artist paints a model during the first Xian s*x Culture Festival in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
Chinese models promote a joint venture car at Auto Exhibit Trade Show of Beijing in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu)
A young girl views sculpture work entitled “Prosperous Times” by artist Zhang Kaixuan is seen at an Olympic themed fine arts, calligraphy and photography exhibition at Shaanxi Art Museum in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
Chinese models show the new types of 3G mobile phones at the P&T/Wireless & Networks Comm China, the largest telecom event in Asia, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Feng Li)
A boy plays at a water playground in downtown Taipei amid a wave of simmering summer heat. (Photo by Patrick Lin/AFP Photo)
A monkey poses for tourists at the Shunan Bamboo Sea scenic area in Yibin of Sichuan Province, China. (Photo by China Photos)
Competitors dance before the Hong Kong skyline as they take part in a Red Bull “Flugtag” event in the West Kowloon district of the city. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)
Two hundred newlywed couples pose at the National Stadium, better known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing. (Photo by AFP Photo)
An assistant runs out of frame as she hoists the dress aloft as Chinese newlyweds pose for photographs during a photo session in Thames Town in Songjiang, China. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak)
At the entrance to an underground walkway in Xi'an, pedestrians are greeted by ads for high-end perfumes, cosmetics and jewelry. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Flood water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir, on the Yellow River in Jiyuan, central China's Henan Province. (Photo by Miao Qiunao/Xinhua/Associated Press)
A portrait of Mao Zedong greets visitors at the main entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Booth girls wearing cosplay outfits enjoy a break between two performances during the 8th annual China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (ChinaJoy), in Shanghai. (Photo by Phillippe Lopez /AFP Photo)
A car sits precariously on a bridge after it collapsed due to rising floodwaters in Huaiyuan, in southwest China's Sichuan province. (Photo by AFP Photo)
Relatives grieve the loss of a loved one, pulled out from the mud and rubble of the devastating landslide in Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu province. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)
A firefighter rushes to aid his colleague who ran into trouble amid thick oil cover as they attempted to fix an underwater pump in Dalian, China. (Photo by Jiang He/Greenpeace/Associated Press)
A street vendor in Xi'an rests on a stoop. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Street scenes: Xi'an and Beijing. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Chinese soldiers stand in line at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, prior to the China national pavilion day, which also marked the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)
Passersby help a woman who broke down in Urumqi, after burning offerings in the place where one of her relatives was killed during the bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity in the city. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)
A street lamp is partially submerged by the flooded Yangtze River in southwest China's Chongqing city. (Photo by Associated Press)
New meets old at the Forest of Stone Steles in Xi'an. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Zhujiajiao is often referred to as China's Venice. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
Tourists play Hacky Sack in The Forbidden City. (Photo by Mark Edelson/The Palm Beach Post)
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